On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 11:36:49 CEST, Fraser Scott wrote:
> On 7 May 2015 at 10:29, Arno Wagner <arno at wagner.name> wrote:
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> Yeah. I've got some limitations as to where I can keep a 400GB file, so for
> now I'll just work with a hundred meg or so. Once I can strings that to get
> what looks like a file system, I'll apply the code to the whole image.
Just get a 1TB or larger external USB disk. They are not expensive.
And probably a lot cheaper than your wive's wrath of you accidentally
kill the original disk. Firts rule of all data-recovery: Never work
on the original, always on a copy. And if the data has any worth,
make two backups and only work on one.
> Just one remark: Your terminology seems to be off, as ECB does not
> > have an IV. I suggets using the formula from Wikipedia directly and
> > to forget about "IV"s.
> >
>> What I meant was I was using openssl's AES in ECB mode as a building block
> for doing LRW myself. So I was doing something like E_k(tweak(IV, sector))
> ^ tweak(IV, sector) with ECB providing E_k.
Ok. The thing is though that "ECB" is a "mode" while E_k is
one elementary encryption op. ECB means encryting b0,b1,b2 as
E_k(b0),E_k(b1),E_k(b2). For just one block, they are the same,
but the term "mode" does not make sense for just one block.
Not trying to be a smart-ass, but people will understand you
better with the right terminology.
Arno
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